Heart of a Dog

Name: Heart of a Dog
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ISBN: 9781612192888

ISBN-10: 1612192882

ISBN-13: 9781612192888

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mikhail Bulgakov, Michael Glenny

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A new edition of Bulgakov’s fantastical precursor to The Master and Margarita, part of Melville House’s reissue of the Bulgakov backlist in Michael Glenny’s celebrated translations.A key work of early modernism, this is the superbly comic story of a Soviet scientist and a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Attempting a medical first, the scientist transplants the glands of a petty criminal into the dog and, with that, turns a distinctly worryingly human animal loose on the city. The new, lecherous, vulgar, Engels-spouting Sharik soon finds his niche in govenrmental bureaucracy as the official in charge of purging the city of cats.A Frankenstein fable that’s as funny as it is terrifying,…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication date: 7/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.90" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English